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OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The best young spellers in the English language are competing at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The first bee was held ...

This year's national spelling bee champion will be the 110th, because the bee ended in a two-way tie several times and an eight-way tie in 2019.

Vishva Bharath, 13, of La Porte, Ind., stretches during a commercial break in the first preliminary round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. AP ...

Jason Chukwuma-Eze, 10, who finished his fifth-grade year at Shawnee Middle School, didn’t make the threshold of scoring 13 on a written test to advance to the fourth round.

On Tuesday, the three young contestants showed off their spelling and vocabulary knowledge in the first two rounds.

Contestants in the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee from Orange and Los Angeles counties are Sydney Tran, 13, from El Rancho Charter School in Anaheim; Kamya Balaji, 12, from Notre Dame Academy ...

“She told me the same thing. And in third grade she drew a little picture of herself from like the Spelling Bee and I remember seeing it,” said Nocella.

The winner will receive $50,000 from the Scripps National Spelling Bee, $2,500 and a reference library from the dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster, $400 in reference works from Encyclopedia ...